If Nigeria ever happened to anyone, it happened to John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo (1935—2020).
If Nigeria ever happened to anyone, it happened to John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo (1935—2020).
I thought Nigeria’s healthcare was rotting, and then I took up a job at a General Hospital.
Chika thinks Achebe’s thought process unique. Esomnofu believes Iduma is grossly underrated.
You are becoming a version of a person okay with the passing of a father.
The average Hausa trader is voluble. Ask the price of an object in a rural market, he’ll reply, “Hundred. Do you want me to speak gaskiya?”
Rigging, you whisper. Corruption. Tribalism.
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Apropos of writing an essay on the experience of plodding through a difficult time in my life, I have been thinking about what suffering means for the artist. The process of writing that essay, as one would expect, was a dark affair layered with distress and pain. I wrote in spurts, never steadily, as both …
We know that visiting a military dictator to seek pardon for a coup plotter is no small feat. Soyinka says the visit was your idea. Where did you get the courage?
"Nigerian men, fear them. They are wicked. Wicked! Especially Igbo men. They can be at home or at a friend's place drinking beer and talking nonsense, while their wives are out in the sun, farming. And when the women returned home tired, they would expect her to go to the kitchen in that state, while …